The amicus brief, filed by Legal Momentum and joined by eleven other local and national sexual assault, domestic violence and women's rights organizations, and prepared with the assistance of O'Melveny & Myers, drew on VAWA's legislative history. In December 1998, we argued in defense of the law’s constitutionality, joined by the Department of Justice, and in February 1999, the court ruled in our favor. The decision was eventually overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Morrison.